“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”
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@gleick Is it just Trump? What would happen if Trump, now elderly, died suddenly? Would Vance be better? Would the US government improve, or would it just be one face replaced by another?
It's true that Trump's narcissism, ego, and megalomania border on insanity. Which makes me wonder... if you feed the ego of someone so absurdly crazy with whispers and advice, could you get them to act in a planned way according to the wishes of those who whisper and advise?
I mean, Trump is the storefront. If you change the storefront, the store will still be there.
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In the EU we have tried to appease him assuming he was like the flu: it will pass.
But I think we all are slowly coming to the realization that it is not; that trumpism it is more likely to be a chronic condition.
Time to look for alternatives to the US, then. The first big treaty have already been signed.
The US needs to bridle that psycho ASAP.
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“We are a country ruled by a megalomaniac whose views are openly hateful and proudly ignorant, whose avarice knows no bounds and whose claim to power is absolute. Foreign leaders try to appease him with flattery and curry his favor with gifts.”
@gleick ... for now
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In the EU we have tried to appease him assuming he was like the flu: it will pass.
But I think we all are slowly coming to the realization that it is not; that trumpism it is more likely to be a chronic condition.
Time to look for alternatives to the US, then. The first big treaty have already been signed.
The US needs to bridle that psycho ASAP.
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In the EU we have tried to appease him assuming he was like the flu: it will pass.
But I think we all are slowly coming to the realization that it is not; that trumpism it is more likely to be a chronic condition.
Time to look for alternatives to the US, then. The first big treaty have already been signed.
The US needs to bridle that psycho ASAP.
Fascism doesn't pass simply because its leader is ousted or dies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/13/alito-supreme-court-far-right-tiesLook at Germany, still having to deal with fascist aristocrats a century later.
Heinrich XIII
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/five-jailed-for-far-right-plot-to-overthrow-german-government
German ‘Reichsbuerger’ coup plotters go on trial: Is democracy at stake?
The ‘Reichsbuerger’ movement was planning to overthrow the German government. Is the threat of a coup real?
Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
Germany arrests 25 accused of plotting coup
A far-right group is suspected of planning to storm parliament and install an aristocrat as leader.
(www.bbc.com)
Germany bans extremist movement and arrests self-declared 'king' Peter
Police arrest the leaders of Germany's largest Reichsbürger faction, that calls itself "Kingdom of Germany".
(www.bbc.com)
Same with the UK
https://www.onlondon.co.uk/nigel-farage-and-oswald-mosley-their-london-endeavours-compared/
The Disturbing History of Royal Infatuation With Hitler
From Edward, Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson to Princess Mafalda of Italy, many royal houses are still grappling with their family’s collaboration with the Nazis.
Vanity Fair (www.vanityfair.com)
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Our hope here is that the non-voters who stayed home in 2024 will join with the Republicans who thought they wouldn’t be harmed by #Trump, and both will join the liberals who never wanted any of this, to push Trump and his party out of power in the midterms.
Yes, there’s no guarantee, and yes it will be difficult, and YES it is worth striving for. Hopefully enough people will understand.
@mister_shade02X2 @jgg @gleick Unless by the time those voters would get a chance to vote US has become another russia where “voting” no longer is possible.
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@jgg @gleick The thing about the flu is that sometimes it doesn't pass. Like Covid and other viruses, sometimes you don't get better -- and every time you get sick with that virus, the odds of ending up with a chronic illness go up exponentially.
We got infected with variant 2.0 before we'd actually gotten over 1.0; there's definitely been measurable organ damage, and the odds of us ending up with Long MAGA are, unfortunately, extremely high.
@gypsyvegan @jgg @gleick Brilliantly written
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Our hope here is that the non-voters who stayed home in 2024 will join with the Republicans who thought they wouldn’t be harmed by #Trump, and both will join the liberals who never wanted any of this, to push Trump and his party out of power in the midterms.
Yes, there’s no guarantee, and yes it will be difficult, and YES it is worth striving for. Hopefully enough people will understand.
@mister_shade02X2 @jgg @gleick
The liberals won't cut it. They're too interested in supporting the wealthy and corporations. We need progressives. We need the poor people's campaign and the working families party and everyone who've been actively ignored at best and undermined more commonly. We need the desperate who turned to Trump because the Democrats didn't want to help them. Not the racists, though. -
In the EU we have tried to appease him assuming he was like the flu: it will pass.
But I think we all are slowly coming to the realization that it is not; that trumpism it is more likely to be a chronic condition.
Time to look for alternatives to the US, then. The first big treaty have already been signed.
The US needs to bridle that psycho ASAP.
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“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”
"We have become a country where a person can be summarily executed in public for protesting that paramilitary force.”
"We have become a country whose federal government deploys military and paramilitary forces in the streets of its major cities, terrorizing the residents in the guise of protecting them.” (1/2)
"He [Trump] wants an army of pretend soldiers who have been hired to be loyal to him, who will follow any order they are given, including shooting people who are 'disrespectful' and do not 'comply' with orders."
- Lucian K. Truscott
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-has-given-up-on-the-national'Comply or die' is NOT freedom.
Isn't the USA supposed to be the land of the free?
#ICE #CBP #Fascism #Trump #GOP #Politics #Violence #Crime #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Meme #Memes
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@jgg @gleick The thing about the flu is that sometimes it doesn't pass. Like Covid and other viruses, sometimes you don't get better -- and every time you get sick with that virus, the odds of ending up with a chronic illness go up exponentially.
We got infected with variant 2.0 before we'd actually gotten over 1.0; there's definitely been measurable organ damage, and the odds of us ending up with Long MAGA are, unfortunately, extremely high.
@gypsyvegan @jgg @gleick USA got long CoupVid
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“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”
"We have become a country where a person can be summarily executed in public for protesting that paramilitary force.”
"We have become a country whose federal government deploys military and paramilitary forces in the streets of its major cities, terrorizing the residents in the guise of protecting them.” (1/2)
@gleick
Hasn't the USA always been that for Native Americans, Black & Mexicans?
Or protesters. Shooting students in 1960s.
Now it's much worse because the fascism has been allowed to grow.
Both Republican & Democrat politicians are controlled by big corporate rich guys.
The Constitution, Electoral College, Presidency and Supreme court are flawed. All designed by rich white men for rich white men.Certainly Trump has exploited it to make it worst it's ever been. Possible because it's flawed.
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In the EU we have tried to appease him assuming he was like the flu: it will pass.
But I think we all are slowly coming to the realization that it is not; that trumpism it is more likely to be a chronic condition.
Time to look for alternatives to the US, then. The first big treaty have already been signed.
The US needs to bridle that psycho ASAP.
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Our hope here is that the non-voters who stayed home in 2024 will join with the Republicans who thought they wouldn’t be harmed by #Trump, and both will join the liberals who never wanted any of this, to push Trump and his party out of power in the midterms.
Yes, there’s no guarantee, and yes it will be difficult, and YES it is worth striving for. Hopefully enough people will understand.
@mister_shade02X2 @jgg @gleick
And I wish them the best.
However, going forward the #EuropeanUnion must work with the assumption that #MAGA and #Trumpism are a permanent condition of the USA. The USA is not to be trusted, even if a Democratic candidate manages to get elected in the next election.
We thought that George W. Bush was an aberration, but we were wrong. We must not be fooled again.
